Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics cover a broad range of topics that reveal a passion for human rights, environmental issues, politics, and spirituality...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth27 May 1945
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
girl song morning
I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.
eye tragedy wake-up
Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.
decision different world
There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
song rocks rock-and-roll
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
song writing years
I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
gold chains
Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.
normal trouble
The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.
children hero blood
Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.
light people shining
Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.
christian mean heart
If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.
struggle fighting darkness
But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.
time generations moments
When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations
travel earth spirit
There's roads, and there's roads, And they call. Can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit The best roads of all Are the ones that aren't certain. One of those is where you'll find me 'Til they drop the big curtain.
fall sky waiting
One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.